Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-23

The Iowa Supreme court has decided that
a barber may refuse to shave any customer,
and that in SO refusing he need not allege a
reason.
The only Barnum takes his latest misfor-
tune very easily, being consoled somewhat,
probably, by the fact that there is a big free
advertisement in it.
Chicago will have to struggle with a gas
tEust, an electric light trust and street rail
road trust, and such struggling will doubtless
lead to good deal Of distrust.
Almost anybody can afford to have s'the
shakes nowadays. Quinine, which once
sold for FIVE dollars an ounce, can now be
obtained in large quantities for thirty cents
an ounce.
Here is q chance for some Connecticut
Yankee. The authorities of New South
Wales have advertised a reward of $125, 900
for an ef1ectual device for the determination
of the rabbits which infest the colony.
Cooperation seems to be fourishing in
Georgia. In that State there exist number
of societies composed wholly of negroes that
run plantations, stores and charities on the
cooperative plan. One of these societies,
known as Shepard grove, near Albany, Geor-
gia, owns paid-for farm of 500 acres, on
which it made thirty bales of cotton and a
profit of 81, 800. Other societies of the same
kind have memberships ranging from $50 to
300 and cash in the treasury from $500 to
81 1000. Cooperative stores are also run and
are made to do a fourishing business.
Henry Smith, the congressman elected by
| the labor party at Milwaukee, has a rather
| large platform of mis- own. He intends to
vote for speaker who belongs west of the
Alleghanies, but isn't quite suited with Mr..
Carlisle's tariff views. He wants free trade
/ with Mexico and all the Central and South
American States, but would build the tariff
wall between this continent and Europe so
| high that the products of European labor
| couldn't get into our markets. Free sugar, q
bounty on beet sugar, free coinage, unlimited
greenbacks, postal savings banks, government
railroads and telegraphs, forfeiture of all
land grants, government ownership and op-
Grafton of all mines, and a government credit
system, allowing the people to borrow direct
ly from the treasury, are samples of his as
sortment of principles.
| A proclamation by Frederick the Great
has come to light which shows that he had
sound ideas on the forestry question. Tt is
| to this effect We determined that in all the
lands subject unto us all young married per-
sons at the time of their marriage should
plant at least twelve trees at some conven
lent spot, six being fruit trees and six being
oak trees. AS We find, to our great displeas
ure, that this order has not been obediently
observed, we now further ordain and decree
that this shall be done before the marriage
and that until it is done the parish clergy O
our lands shall not join any person in wed
lock; and to the end that we have a satisfac
tory assurance that this, our ediet, is carried
out, we require all pastors to send in ful
specification of all marriages celebrated il
their parishes.
The report of the 'tRoyal Commission OIL
Technical Instruction" shows to the peopl
of England the superiority, at almost ever,
point, of the German and Swiss schools
school methods and school regulations. Fo
example, the German boys compulsor.
school attendance begins a year later thai
the English boys, but it continues two t,
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